久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Opinion
Home / Opinion / Opinion Line

Muting of 'lie factory' VOA should have come earlier

By Li Yang | China Daily | Updated: 2025-03-25 07:42
Share
Share - WeChat
MA XUEJING/CHINA DAILY

The way in which Voice of America was muted recently, following the Donald Trump administration cutting its funding, might have been beyond the expectations of its employees. They took it for granted that the "just voice" they try to spread around the world would only be muted by foreign "totalitarian" or "authoritarian" regimes to prevent VOA from fighting for "freedom" and "democracy".

Founded in 1942, the international broadcasting state media network's targeted and primary audience is non-Americans outside the US borders, especially those living in countries without "press freedom".

Although it claims to broadcast "uncensored" information, the content it provides is highly selective, its programs specially designed and its agenda carefully set with the purpose of inciting its audience in the targeted countries and regions to overthrow their own regimes.

During the Cold War, VOA's operations expanded in an effort to fight communism and played a role in the decline of communism in several countries. VOA continued to serve as a de facto propaganda tool of the US government after the end of the Cold War, and was invariably behind, along with some other US media outlets and internet companies, the "color revolutions" in different countries.

Despite this, with the rise of the internet and social media that markedly diversify people's sources of information, the influence of such government-sponsored destabilizing operations under cover of "media organizations" such as the VOA has declined markedly. More importantly, the improvement of the media literacy of the targeted audience has also accelerated that process.

Particularly, after the series of failed "democracy experiments" trapped some countries, such as Afghanistan, in decades of chaos, even many keen followers of VOA have awakened to the fact it is not reporting for their interest but for the narrow ends of the US government in its geopolitical games.

No wonder those saying that China "revels in" the US government cutting its funding to VOA are also those that try to see the modern world through a Cold War prism or with the tainted spectacles of ideological prejudice. Overestimating VOA's influence in China, they simply ignore that the Chinese people today are fully confident in their nation's socialist path with Chinese characteristics, and Chinese culture, and they would resolutely resist any external forces' attempts to instigate "peaceful evolution" in their homeland.

Instead of treating VOA as a reliable source of information or a voice of the "free land", many Chinese see it as a "lie factory". As Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told a news conference, that some US media outlets are seen that way can only be blamed on "a notorious track record in their China coverage".

Ironically, the White House has fully uncloaked the nefarious activities of these media organizations by defending its move to defund the US Agency for Global Media, to which VOA belongs, along with Radio Free Europe, saying it will "ensure that taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda".

The latest update on the VOA website was frozen about 10 days ago. Something that should have happened decades ago.

 

Most Viewed in 24 Hours
Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 日韩国产欧美一区二区三区在线 | 综合在线视频精品专区 | 欧美亚洲在线视频 | 亚洲国产片在线观看 | 福利视频美女国产精品 | 国产片一级aaa毛片视频 | 日韩一区二区免费看 | 亚洲成人在线播放 | 亚洲专区在线视频 | 97人摸人人澡人人人超一碰 | 中美日韩在线网免费毛片视频 | 正在播放国产大学生情侣 | 成人在线a | 精品午夜寂寞黄网站在线 | 毛片免费观看的视频在线 | 色九九视频 | 草草草影院 | 亚洲黄色免费观看 | 亚洲国产中文字幕 | 国产三级毛片视频 | 免费看a级毛片 | 香港aa三级久久三级 | 亚洲精品国产综合一线久久 | 色青青草原桃花久久综合 | 黄色美女视频网站 | 一级国产精品一级国产精品片 | 国产高清在线观看 | a毛片免费观看 | 在线观看 国产 | 免费v片视频在线观看视频 免费v片在线观看 | 中文字幕一区二区在线观看 | 亚洲综合网在线 | 日本加勒比高清一本大道 | 国产精品成人免费 | 成人男女啪啪免费观看网站 | 国产精品久久永久免费 | 国产高清在线精品一区a | a毛片免费看 | 免费精品99久久国产综合精品 | 亚洲综合色dddd26 | 亚洲伊人色综合网站亚洲伊人 |